New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-12

The new Executive mansion is nearly completed :
and many letter man lives in n worse hou-e than
the Governor OF New-York. The Governor christened
the place when he gave Mr.. Cleveland his breakfast
YESTERDAY morun,. There is something funny about
the Presidents bobhing up at the Governors
honse and hoiting the Governors breakfast ahd
then scUry wing Oh il he eared Hills presence would
do hun some dreadful harm. Ii REMINDS me OF the way
some people take bad nedisue They feel that it
must be done They brace themselves for il and they
shove the spoon down their tbroats with spasinodic
movements they groan, they gurSle, they twist their
faces into dozen cOntortions. and when they have
rDsed their mouths with flood of water, they 20 off
looking weak and tired II IS thus that the Prcs-
dent visits the Governor. But how different tue
hosts manner. How lovingly he Craps hls great
uyaps hand. How warmly he smiles and now anxi-
ousy he inquiries alter his health! They cay that n
description OF that break ast yesterday wOnd be "a
good ps and that could ii DO given it would be
iound that there was one member oil the Presidents
party cool OF speech and amiaOle o. manner as ever
the astute Governor dare be. They say that tho
break was game OF chess, aud that the Governor
la 10 conclude t.at the Di.Ies OF the White House
fayed win in.ini zest and skill.
think the Governor wond ieel less nervous about
the situation /; he knew just what 10 make OF the
charming sphinx to whom lie was 20 gallant yesterday
at breakfast.
II was the first meal he had taken in his home,
aud be been rushing" preparations Tor it ali the
week. Gangs Of workmen had been b1sily engaged
putting lOwn the earl cts hanging the pictures, plac-
ing the furniture. laying out end rolling the lawn and
walks removing the debris and completing the fences
make the place honeke and to take away its
too obvious newness. 1t ia really charming home.
Sandnr ia the OF a lot 3GJ feet long By 30
deep, and upon emnence II feet above the street,
it, irregular outlines its wide, encreling pazzas, its
sIanting, many gabed root, It's lofty. oldiashioned
chimney, and ts large Windows give it picturesque
appearance 1t has official air about il. Ii looks
like "a home and not the idence OF authority. Amy
gentleman with hi, family, his horses and his dogs
might live there and yet its architect Commissioner
Perr his conrived to make u thoroughly convenient
for all the purposes of a GubeInatorial dwelling.
This State GOT along for two centuries without any
Executive mansion It's Governors lived where they
might, and some OF them Jared badly enough, but
in rdens time the Legislature bought house the
site OF the present new building When Governor
Hill started his scheme of securing more elaborate
hnbtation, his idea to add to the old house. liz
fact. the WORK begun tbat theory. But it has
ended not unlike certain renodclled oyster soup,
which a poor weak MORTAL shaking 10 every nerve
from the eiecs OF long spree, had ordered OF the
waiter nj "A restaurant he poor fellow had probably
not tasted food Tor week, and he had entered the
Restaurant 10 the hope that he could brace himself uP
with Little substantial food. lie studied that same
old twoandsixpence OF bill-ol-are for sc minutes,
aud then raintly ordered an oyster soup. AS the
waiter departed, doubt and misgving seized the old
wrecks mind aid he CONFUSED the rest OF the people
in the room by suddenly calling out Waiter, make
that oyster soup gin i1zl"